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Kansas City Massacre — Part 23

160 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 159 pages OCR'd
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. : Atlanta, Ga. October 18, 1933, + WEXORANDIN TO SAC RORERS yee etme Seeger ge te A. C, Aderhold, Warden, U.8.P., Atlante, ‘Ge., turned over ‘tos ne a ny Fequest from Frank LeRoy Hollis to see an agent of this Bureau. Hollis. ine as " number 45575 and is serving a sentence of two years for Violation of the § — -. MNetional Motor Vehicle Theft Acte” . He > Bas convigted at Now ", Orleansy Teer. ws Hollie informed me “that after he left Biloxi, Mies, about June 4, Joss” Je _ he went to Bartlesville, Okla, He says he escaped at thie time from the County, . Jail and wanted to know if a detainer had been placed against him for thia ~ / eecape and whether any other charges were now pending against him in this or ° Le any other district. I told him I was not informed as to this end referred hia. to the Record Clerk at the Penitentiary. . 2 De x. Poe ecly of . Hollis then informed me thet at the time ot bis ‘conviction | in Hew or- i * ae a leans Agent Breed of this division head investigated the case. He informed me that, . he had discussed with Agent Breed certain information he had perteining to Pretty: “ Boy Floyd, and that he now desired to give agent Breed additional information - and wanted to know how he oould reach egent Breed, I advised him to give me the - information and I would put i¢ in the proper hands. coe ; Te * | 7 ly no ie - ; y . i. 0 Leer aL |! en i Fe _ : " a ces eee pe ae : Ponty ' “ 1 eben P, . a t { Hitt: ° t “7 mys . Hollis informed me that he knew Floyd having mot “Floyd in the State Pene itentiary eight or nine years ago at Jefferson City, Mo. Ho said he also had-***’ known Floyd in the County Jail at St. louis, Mo. just before he and Floyd were | sent to the Missouri Penitentiary. He said he worked as a pipe fitter in the Missouri Pen and Floyd. was his helper, He says thet when ke got to Sertiesviitp Okla. about June 4, 1933, ho met on the streets a fellow kmown to him as Byrd ; who had visited Floyd in the St, Louis County Jail and that a boy with light ry , hair about 22 or 25 yearea 01d about 5'8" weight about 150 pounds and nicely - dressed was with Byrd, but he has forgotten the name of this boy. Byrd told é. him thet if ever he was in need of a friend and wanted to get in touch with Lye either he or Floyd that he could locate this boy through his girl who worked a at a show at Sth and Kalnut Streetea in Konsas City, Mo. Ee has forgotten ths aie. : name of the girl and had never seen her so could not describe her. He sald that. Byrd was about thirty years of eves dark hair . about six feet ene brown oon at "Holts: said ‘that while ‘galing to > Byrd. sonething was sata that ¢ brought it “up the name of Verne Miller and Byrd told him thet Miller was then staying in | the next town after leaving Fayetteville going up in the mounteine about twenty miles from Fayetteville en a gountry roade = Py ERR eee io ~ Very truly yours, CHAPMON FLETCHER,
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